Opening Reception: Sunday September 10, 2-5 p.m. RSVP here

Featuring Tarot Readings with the 100 People deck by Roksana Filipowska. Get a tarot reading!

Closing Reception: Friday September 29, 6-9 p.m.

Gallery Hours: Saturday 12-5 p.m. or by appointment.

Mark Stockton: 100 People examines who and how we venerate and connect. What is representation in a larger sense? Using demographics to structure an equitable range of representation, and selecting subjects from a range of time periods—from the beginnings of portrait photography (1839) to the present—the series seeks to create an evolving canon of portraits, reflecting an expanded narrative of history and identity while centering ideas of inclusivity and subjectivity.

Often sourced from recommendations and further reading, the selection process is opened-up beyond the limitations of the artist’s pre-existing-knowledge base; the time-intensive drawings invite further reflection. Each portrait, connecting through an active gaze, looks back on the viewer, collapsing time and space divides, offering different points of connections to different people.

Artist Publication

In addition to the original 100 drawings, the artists created an accompanying publication that contains photo documentation of each drawing presented as a deck of cards, and featuring an essay by Mary E.E. Ebeling, Associate Professor in Sociology and affiliate faculty in the Center for Science, Technology and Society, and Global Studies and Modern Languages, at Drexel University, where Mark Stockton also teaches in the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design. 

Tarot Readings

Art historian and third-generation tarot reader Roksana Filipowska will be using the deck of Mark Stockton’s 100 people cards to provide a unique way to engage with the work, offering 10-minute, 3-card readings available to visitors at the Opening Reception on Sunday, September 10 from 2-5 p.m. at Chimaera Gallery. Get a tarot reading!

Please visit the exhibition microsite which includes the complete list of portraits with links to their biographies: www.markstockton-100people.com

Additionally you can purchase the publication of 100 cards here.

Mark Stockton is a Philadelphia-based artist. His drawings have been shown both nationally and internationally with exhibitions in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, New York, London, and Beijing. Originally from the West Coast, he received his BFA from Oregon State University in 1996 and his MFA in Painting and Drawing from Syracuse University in 2000. Since 2009, Mark has worked with the independent arts organization Vox Populi as both a contributing artist and as a board member. His work is in many private and public collections, including the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the West Collection. He currently teaches design and drawing at Drexel University. He lives in Philly with his wife Cindy, his two kids—Otto and Iona, and his dog—Elsie. His most recent works and projects can be found at mtstockton.com.

Roksana Filipowska, Ph.D.  is a third-generation tarot reader, as well as an educator and researcher interested in the intersections of art, science and spirituality. Roksana approaches the tarot in an embodied way, drawing on her intuition, ancestral traditions, training as an art historian and experience as a museum educator. She has given talks on the tarot, along with tarot readings, at venues ranging from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum to Marc Jacobs for New York Fashion Week. For monthly tarot readings and reflections on embodying archetypes and co-creating with the unknown, follow Roksana on Instagram at @Roksana_Filipowska